Because of the failure of religion to offer satisfying answers to an increasing number of people, it's time for philosophy to address… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
What is remarkable about the Greeks - even pre-philosophically - is that despite the salience of religious rituals in their lives, when it came to the question of what it is that makes an individual human life worth living they didn't look to the immortals but rather approached the question in mortal terms. Their approaching the question of human mattering… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share
“how irrelevant the belief in God can be to religious experience—so irrelevant that the emotional structure of religious experiences can be transplanted… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
It was while I was studying philosophy that I came to understand. . . that it is no sign of moral or… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Math . . . music .. . starry nights . . . These are secular ways of achieving transcendence, of feeling lifted… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
I'm a Spinozist. I believe in reason. I think all the progress that we've made making this a better world have been… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
In fact, the answers that religion, as we have come to know it, provides to the question of human worth have played… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Youth is not an essential, but rather an accidental property. Nobody is in essence young. One either ceases to be or ceases to be… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die. — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
When you ask why did some particular question occur to a scientist or philosopher for the first time, or why did this particular approach seem natural, then your questions concern the context of discovery. When you ask whether the argument the philosopher puts forth to answer that question is sound, or whether the evidence justifies the scientific theory proposed, then… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share
Those who share my heroes are, in the deepest sense, of my own kind. — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
“one evangelical scientist who had felt his doubts falling away from him when he was hiking in the mountains and came upon a frozen… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Because of the failure of religion to offer satisfying answers to an increasing number of people, it's time for philosophy to address forcefully these… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
If we look at our attitudes consistently and work out the logical implications we're on the road to moral progress, moral understanding. — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
We may not need God to tell us where the world came from, but we need God to be able to live moral lives… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
In order to refute a conclusion, you have to put forth the best possible argument for it. — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Philosophical progress changes what we take to be "intuitively" obvious, and this change covers up the tracks of the laborious arguments that preceded the… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
What one tries to force into a child against its own nature will never come to good. — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
